Watching Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner re-enter political life after sex scandals that forced them to resign from office seems to have given former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey an idea.

Nine years after he quit in disgrace over his own sex scandal, McGreevey on Thursday was formally approved as executive director of the Jersey City Employment Program. This is a publicly funded nonprofit that administers the city’s job-training plan. The position pays $110,000.

Mayor Steven Fulop, who appointed McGreevey, says the former governor is “uniquely qualified” for the job, having worked as a seminary student with female prison inmates by helping them find post-release jobs. We don’t deny any good work he’s done. But McGreevey’s scandal-scarred tenure as governor ought to disqualify him for any public position.

In his brief time in office, the McGreevey administration set records for corruption, with scandal after scandal involving aides and associates who took payoffs, extorted others and hired prostitutes — shades of Client 9. By his own admission: “It was really remarkable how many people in my administration turned out to have totally crazy meltdowns. Surely that makes me a bad judge of character, at the least.”

On top of this, McGreevey never really ’fessed up to why he had to resign. It wasn’t because he was gay. It was because he had installed his secret gay lover as an adviser on homeland security, a position for which the man was unqualified.

Certainly choosing religious life — McGreevey has said he wants to be an Episcopal priest — is a more admirable path to redemption than what Spitzer and Weiner have been doing. Too bad McGreevey didn’t just stay there. That would have been a real public service.